Lean Six Sigma
Overview
Boost your success by getting Lean. In the world of Lean thinking, your primary goal is to operate more efficiently by increasing value, eliminating waste and streamlining flow. Lean Six Sigma techniques help professionals in both service and manufacturing industries.
64 PDUs | 8 Continuing Education Units
80 Military Clock Hours | 10 Military Clock Hours Per Week
Who Should Register?
This course is ideal for managers and professionals in any type of industry who want to transform their organization into a leaner, more efficient business. Those with little or no prior experience with Lean Six Sigma will learn to understand, interpret, and use the core concepts of Lean methodologies to make better business decisions. Gain valuable skills that can be used immediately to analyze unit or company performance.
Course offerings and associated prices are subject to change without prior notice. Pricing for multi-course certificate programs varies depending on course selection. View the Professional Education Catalog for more information on the courses and programs.
Online Learning Experience
Imagine an online classroom that takes you inside successful organizations, surrounds you with top Six Sigma experts and puts innovative learning tools at your fingertips. As a recognized leader in Six Sigma education online, Villanova University is dedicated to providing the most dynamic and engaging programs available, as our enhanced online experience demonstrates:
- Online experience enhanced by weekly virtual live classes taught by Lean practitioners
- Advanced animations allow you to gain a full grasp of course topics
- Videos of industry experts offer easy-to-understand guidance
- Lightboards and other interactive learning tools provide compelling and unique presentation formats
What You’ll Study
Lean Six Sigma Overview
- What is Lean?
- Lean Principles
- Value, Flow and Waste
- Lean vs Six Sigma
- Prominent Figures of Lean
Kaizen
- Philosophy of Continual Improvement
- Lean Implementation Approaches
- First Wave Project Selection
- Chartering Projects
- Lean Project Roles and Responsibilities
Teams
- Forming Teams
- Idea Generation Tools
- Group Decision Making
- The 7M (management) Tools
Value and Value Stream Mapping
- Identifying Customer Needs and Requirements
- Specifying Value and Value Added
- The Eight Wastes In-depth
- Gemba and Waste Walks
- Value Stream Mapping for Service and Manufacturing
Flow, Pull, and Perfection
- Spaghetti Mapping
- Quick Changeovers (SMED)
- Cellular Design
- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
- Theory of Constraints
- Pull Systems and Just-In-Time Concepts
- Scheduling Pull Systems
- Kanbans and Visual Signals
- Establishing a Visual Workplace
- Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Poka Yoke
- 5S/6S in Service and Manufacturing
- Total Productive Maintenance
- Standard Work
Kaizen Events
- Kaizen Event Overview
- Kaizen Philosophy
- Preparing Teams for Kaizen Events
- Kaizen Events Day by Day
- Individual, Point, and Process Kaizen
- Manufacturing, Service, and IT Considerations
Lean Deployment
- Organizational Assessment
- Planning for Lean Implementation
- Lean Deployment
- Hoshin Planning
- Barriers to Success
- The Benefits of Six Sigma Tools
- Structuring Lean
Curriculum
8 Week Course
An Introduction to Lean Methodologies
- Lean companies
- The definition of value-added and contrasting that with the eight forms of waste
- Introduction to Kaizen, a Japanese term for continual improvement
- Considerations for choosing first wave projects
- Historical Lean figures and companies
Teams and Decision Making with Lean Tools
- Lean roles and responsibilities
- Key elements of a project charter
- Six blocker
- The phases the team experiences when working on projects
- Force field analysis (FFA)
- 7M (management) tools
Value
- Defining value
- The eight forms of waste that spell out the acronym DOWNTIME
- We learn about "going to gemba"
- Understanding the importance of something known as a "waste walk"
Mapping the Value Stream
- Introduction to value stream mapping
- The 6M’s
- Flowcharting
Flow and Pull
- Spaghetti charts
- Quick changeover
- Cellular design
- Overall equipment effectiveness (OEE)
- Theory of constraints (TOC)
- Pull systems and kanban signals
- Visual workplace design
Perfection
- Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Mistake proofing
- Overview of the concept of 5S
- The importance of a total productive maintenance (TPM) system
- Standard work
Kaizen Events
- The meaning of Kaizen
- The Kaizen philosophy
- A five-day Kaizen event implementation effort
The Lean Approach
- Individual, point and process Kaizen
- Kaizen applications
- Agile methodology
- Lean assessments
- Hoshin planning
- Planning for Lean deployment
If you’re going to pay by credit card, you can either get started with installment payments or pay in full. Just let your enrollment representative know the option that works best for you.
Corporate Tuition Assistance
-
Corporate TA
Corporate tuition assistance is paid by your employer. You will need to provide appropriate forms for processing, prior to enrollment. Subject to employer benefit policies.
-
Deferred Corporate TA
Pay tuition now and have your employer reimburse you. Additional documentation will be needed to process this payment. Subject to employer benefit policies.
Military Benefits
Active Duty
Villanova offers a 15% savings, per certificate course, to active-duty servicemembers, Guardsmen and Reservists (upon verification of military status).
Veterans
Villanova offers a 15% savings, per certificate course to veterans (upon verification of military status). You may also use your Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) education benefits for many of Villanova’s 100% online non-credit programs, based upon your individual eligibility.
Spouses and Dependents
Villanova offers a 15% savings, per certificate course, to active-duty servicemembers, veterans, Guardsmen, Reservists and their spouses and dependents (upon verification of military status).
This reduction is valid off the standard tuition fee rate of the listed courses offered by Villanova University with online administration by Bisk. This reduction is not stackable with other reductions, and you may not use this reduction in conjunction with other reductions.
